Guest, Sign inJoin

The Boxing Academy AP Free School

Alternative provisionAges 12–16Free school

Hackney, E5 8PH · Hackney local authority

Hackney’s School Grade A better than 95% of towns in England

How full
17 pupils
35% of its 48 places
Free school meals
59%
59 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about The Boxing Academy AP Free School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Room to spare: 17 pupils for 48 places
  • 59% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Inspected, February 2025 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (E5 8) sold for a median £532,000; Hackney’s is £595,000

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

17 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
0%England 15.3%
EHC plan
100%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
17.6%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
88.2%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 12%Boys 88%
Its letter

No letter for The Boxing Academy AP Free School

Alternative provision isn’t given a letter: pupils come for part of their schooling, so results don’t compare with mainstream schools.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Graded inspection (no overall grade since September 2024), February 2025.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near The Boxing Academy AP Free School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in E5 8, the school’s postcode sector

Hackney property prices →
£532,000
median sale, 313 sales in 36 months · Hackney £595,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K£700K2010201520202025E5 8Hackney
E5 8Hackney

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Terraced
£1.3M
Flat
£510K
E5 8Hackney

Homes in E5 8 sell for a little under Hackney’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

59 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNBA−A−B+A−AA−AA−B+A+AAA−B−A−B−A+B+AB−ABAAB+A+A−BCA+A−A−B+AA+A+BA−B+AA−AA+A−AA+AAB−A+AC+B+ADC+BB−The Boxing Academy AP Free …
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Hackney, E5 8PH

The Boxing Academy AP Free School: common questions

What is The Boxing Academy AP Free School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (February 2025).

How much do houses cost near The Boxing Academy AP Free School?

Homes in its postcode sector, E5 8, sold for a median £532,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (313 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Hackney’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.